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Abu Dhabi - F1 statistics for Sunday's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix:

Titles

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso can become F1's youngest triple world champion at the age of 29.

Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna were both 31 when they took their third titles. Only eight drivers have ever won three championships.

Red Bull's Mark Webber would be the first Australian champion since Alan Jones in 1980 and only the third Australian to take the crown, the other being triple champion Jack Brabham. At 34, he would also be the oldest since Michael Schumacher in 2004 at the age of 35.

Sebastien Vettel, who was 23 on July 3, would be the youngest ever world champion. Lewis Hamilton was 23 and 301 days when he took his title in 2008.

Vettel would also be only the second German to become champion, not including the late Jochen Rindt who competed under an Austrian licence.

A Hamilton title victory, unlikely as it is, would make it three in a row for British drivers (Hamilton won in 2008, Jenson Button in 2009) for the first time since 1965 when Jim Clark clinched Britain's fourth in succession.

Red Bull have never won a drivers' championship. Ferrari have won 15, McLaren 12.

Championship battle

Four drivers remain mathematically in the hunt for the title.

This will be the first time that the season has gone down to a four-way battle in the final race.

There have been 25 previous last race title deciders and the driver who leads the championship after the penultimate round has won the title in 16 of them.

The title will be decided on a countback if Vettel, Webber and Alonso end up level on points. The closest title so far was the 1984 season when Austrian Niki Lauda beat France's Alain Prost by a half point.

Wins

Vettel's victory in Brazil at the weekend was his fourth of the season and ninth of his career.

One more win for Alonso would lift him level with three times champion Jackie Stewart on 27. Those ahead of him are Nigel Mansell (31), Ayrton Senna (41), Alain Prost (51) and Michael Schumacher (91).

Alonso has won five races this year. The last time a driver won five or more races and failed to win the title was in 2008, when Brazilian Felipe Massa won six to Hamilton's five.

Poles

Vettel has been on pole nine times this season. Only seven of the 18 races have been won from pole this year.

Red Bull have taken 14 poles this year and can equal the record of 15 held by McLaren (1988 and 1989) and Williams (1992 and 1993). They have also locked out the front row eight times this year.

Williams hold the record for successive poles, with 24 in a row in 1992/93.

Nico Hulkenberg's pole in Brazil was Williams' first since 2005 and first for a Cosworth-powered car since 1999.

Points

McLaren are the only team to have scored points in every race this year.

Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi will be the 26th circuit to have hosted a title-deciding race.

Milestone

Sunday will be Bridgestone's last race as tyre supplier. Pirelli take over for 2011